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Yes I have seen eggs and larva but think I would be a little concerned letting them raise a queen from eggs laid by a queen that is failing...is that being over cautious?

This was to be my next question,having decided to let the bees sort themselves out,is the coup de grace given by the opposing queen or her workers ...if the latter should I place a queen excluder on the newspaper between the two boxes ? ahh...just seen jbms post

No disease, just failing queens I'm almost happy to report.

I'm thinking of uniting two weak hives (only 2/3 frames of brood in each) using the newspaper method, both hives have 2021 queens.In the past when uniting I have squished the queen I thought inferior but this time round I can't choose between the two and have read , on Dave Cushmans site and...

I try not to google if there's an R in the month.

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What is a parody account exactly?

I love the way that bees don't read the same books as us, yesterday our old pear tree was buzzing with honey bees even though they are also working dandelions,laurel and osr amongst other plants.Apologies for the standard of my photography it is on par with my beekeeping skills !

This explains exactly what I'm seeing, thank you for your answer,much appreciated.

Thankyou for the info and yes l have clear crownboards and all seems fine on the frame tops and am pretty certain its not nosema but will test with microscope if I become worried.It just seemed rather a coincidence that all hives exhibited this just as they had started foraging on this crop...

At the beginning of the week the outside of all six of my hives were pretty clean,this morning all had a liberal splattering of light brown/yellowish bee droppings.Yesterday afternoon they were strongly flying and I have 5 fields of osr just over a mile away coming into flower,I'm wondering if...

Tell that to the ones that I have foolishly placed a bob or two on in the past !

Beehive Joints? Sorry, I'll get my coat.

Outside, 5 at a time , on old milk crates,with board beneath,board above and topped off with roof and concrete block holding it all down.

Usually store my frames dry over winter and have had just the odd wax moth, this winter ,encouraged by articles on this site, I thought I'd try storing them wet and had the worst moth problem I've ever had.......whats that all about then ? Has anyone else experienced this ? ps. Burning sulphur...

Mines bigger but have to admit it hasn't got a swarm alarm.

How about trying a few crushed leaves of lemon balm ? Easy to grow and hardy, it appears to have some of the same chemicals as lemon grass eg neral,geraniol and citronellal. I believe it has been used in the past to wipe around inside of skeps and hives to encourage bees to stay put. Useful in...

Id just like to point out that my liking of your comment was for its command of the french language not its sentiment Forza italia

I never assumed that you were not,I was merely pointing out a fact that gives a little glimmer of hope for England stopping France achieving a grand slam tonight.

Perhaps not but we still beat the Welsh........just saying.